Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

Don't wait the time is never just right.

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.